From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:22:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:22:12 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:34317 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:21:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3AF6F5B8.42F803C1@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 12:21:28 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre1-zisofs i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap! In-Reply-To: <20010505095802.X12431@work.bitmover.com> <20010506142043.B31269@metastasis.f00f.org> <20010505194536.D14127@work.bitmover.com> <9d6qk6$i86$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20010507115659.T14127@work.bitmover.com> <3AF6F11E.3A03050E@transmeta.com> <20010507121822.V14127@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > > > A) Fast has nothing to do with it, ECC runs at the same speed as non-ECC; > > > > "It" meaning BitKeeper. > > What does BitKeeper have to do with this conversation? > > s/BitKeeper/any_app_which_has_integrity_checks/ > > Whether that app runs fast or not has nothing to do with ECC/non-ECC, right? > And while whether that app runs fast or not may have something to do with > other apps that you run along side of it, that's true for all apps, right? > So why the focus on BitKeeper? Am I missing something? > Because your original post was "yeah, Bitkeeper is a memory hog but you can get really cheap non-ECC RAM so just stuff your system with crappy RAM and be happy." Doing so dedicates my system to running a small set of applications, which I am utterly uninterested in. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt